What if public health action was driven by what community members want, not what experts think they ought to want? On September 23, thought leaders from academia, government and the private sector will gather at WashU Bursky Public Health to reimagine how public health leaders listen to their communities.
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Professor Jennifer Layden of Bursky Public Health explains conflicting childhood vaccine guidance, drawing on her experience leading state outbreak responses and national vaccination efforts at the CDC.
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Cancer epidemiologist Kim Johnson, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, reflects on screening guidelines after her aunt’s recent passing from stage 4 breast cancer in this STAT First Opinion piece.
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Archaeologist TR Kidder brings a perspective shaped by his grounding in social and cultural anthropology to his work co-directing the undergraduate Public Health & Society program.
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Camp Yeakey was distinguished speaker at infectious diseases conference |
WashU Arts & Sciences’ Carol Camp Yeakey, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, was an invited distinguished speaker at the fourth World Congress on Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance, held in June in London, United Kingdom. She gave a talk titled, “Compound Vulnerability: Mitigating Neighborhood Inequality, Environmental Disaster, and Health Inequity among the Poor.”
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Media coverage of WashU Bursky Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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Bursky Public Health postdoctoral researcher Yi Wang led a study showing that the Kansas City tenant right-to-counsel program reduces the likelihood of eviction. (Source: St. Louis Public Radio)
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Among St. Louis adults surveyed by iHeard STL, about one in four (23%) reported hearing in the last seven days that “Having 3 separate vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella is safer than one combined vaccine for all three.” Of those who heard it, most said it was “definitely true” (45%) or “seems like it could be true” (23%). For the record, there is no evidence that separate shots are safer.
iHeard is a listening project of the Health Communication Research Laboratory at WashU Bursky Public Health. iHeard surveys about 200 people each week who live or work in St. Louis, to find out what they know, believe and care about in regard to health.
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Bursky Public Health’s Susy Stark, Melissa Krauss, Holly Hollingsworth and Maya Samih co-authored, “Falls and related injury among middle-aged people aging with long-term disability are common and associated with disability symptoms,” published in Disability and Health Journal.
Sarah Stolker, a PhD candidate at Bursky Public Health, is the first author on, “Survey of knowledge, perceptions, and adoption of near-infrared imaging with indocyanine green findings among US lymphedema therapists,” published in Rehabilitation Oncology.
The Brown School's Mitra Naseh, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, is the first and corresponding author on, “Post-migration stressors and health vulnerabilities among Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in Türkiye,” published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
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Last week marked the start of a new semester at WashU. Hillman Hall and other spots on campus were buzzing with the excitement of the 2026-27 academic year, and some highlights were captured in this video!
Watch on YouTube →
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WashU’s Sandro Galea, dean of Bursky Public Health, and the University of Michigan’s Josh Ehrlich explore how being more open to innovations from beyond our borders could benefit U.S. health.
This is Episode #12 of Ideas Matter, a podcast designed to inform a better conversation about what matters most. Hosted by Dean Galea, it explores topics ranging from immigration, global trade, and public health to AI, creativity, and the future of democracy.
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Salma Abdalla speaks with Civic City co-founders Sara Bannoura and Darren Jackson about what changes when communities are treated as partners in producing knowledge and designing public solutions.
The episode belongs to the Building Better Ways of Knowing mini-series of the Complicating the Narrative podcast. The mini-series examines how public health knowledge is produced, judged, communicated, and put to use.
"Complicating the Narrative” is hosted by Professor Abdalla and supported by WashU Public Health and the Frick Initiative.
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| Public Health Ideas convenings
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| Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
This convening will examine innovative approaches to community listening to build trust and improve public health.
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The WashU Bursky Public Health Moment is published by the Bursky School of Public Health Office of Communications. You can reach us at [email protected].
Visit publichealth.washu.edu for the latest news and information, and follow us on social media.
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Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky School of Public Health
at Washington University in St. Louis
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
[email protected]
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